Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

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Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Opening speeches, agenda and programme

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PARE 1. Kenya that it has already helped us in a practical way. We are looking forward very much to the further help it will give us and we are most anxious to co-operate with it in every way so far as our means will permit. I think I am speaking on behalf of all representatives here when I say we look forward to the reconstitution and reorganisation of Amani. It is now in the hands of the Secretary of State and I hope it will be brought to life again and expanded before: very long. I must not keep you by talking too long and will end by telling you again that Kenya is very proud to have this Conference held here and hopes that the arrangements made for your comfort and convenience are agreeable to you. There is no doubt that this. Conference will be a thing of pleasure and profit to us. We also hope it will be a thing of pleasure and profit to you delegates who have come from such great distances and also to the great scientific movement which you represent. (Applause.) A vote of thanks to His Excellency was moved by Mr. Fuller (Union of South Africa) and seconded by Cav. L. Bicchieri, Royal Italian Consul. Mr. FULLER: On behalf of the delegates of this important Conference, and particularly for those amongst us from the Dominion of South Africa, I desire to thank you, Sir, for the very kind and warm welcome you have extended to us. Most especially, Sir, have I to thank you for the encouraging words with which you have set us to our various. tasks and for your clear and helpful exposition of the duties that lie before us. . I feel sure this Conference will mark another milestone in the progress of Africa—Africa the great, the wonderful, but no longer the dark—another step, Sir, in the conquest of its wilds and its ills by the sons of Europe. The honour of making this opening reply to your Excellency ’s welcome I gladly accepted on behalf of South Africa—South Africa whose future and destiny rests in safety upon that sure foundation— the love of the land by its farmers, be they Britain or Boer. We South Africans are all inordinately proud of the progress our community has made in the development of its agricultural resources. We point to it with pride and we tell one another and the world that with us agriculture has progressed by leaps and bounds. But how, Sir, shall I describe the amazing progress of agriculture in Kenya Colony? To me, at least, its progress in this glorious country has been phenomenal. Many people have been so good as to refer in eulogistic terms to the strength and the organisation of the Agricultural Department of the Southern Dominion. I accept what they say ‘‘ ‘to the foot of the letter.”” Our Agricultural Department is what it is, and its influence. throughout our land is what it is, because of the courage and prevision of one or two men, and one of these men is to be found to-day presiding over and directing the agricultural destiny of Kenya. On behalf of all the delegates attending this Conference, but especially on behalf of those representing British Territories, I thank you, Sir, for your very kind welcome to us, and I ask the Cavalieri Bicchieri to add a few words on behalf of the delegates from other Territories. 6B

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